PR 302: NHS EMPLOYERS MUST END POSTCODE LOTTERY ON FLEXIBLE WORKING

The POA as one of the 18 Trade Unions representing NHS workers, strongly support NHS Leaders making flexible working the norm to deliver better patient care and help resolve the staffing crisis.

A coalition of 18 Unions who represent every part of the NHS workforce has launched a new initiative to promote more choice for staff over how, when and where they work.

The Get Ahead on Flex pledge is aimed at getting employers to speed up their progress on working arrangements that offer more freedom such as team-rostering and 'any hours' contracts which offer staff the hours they want to work from the outset, say the NHS Unions.

This is important to POA members that they are supported to work within the NHS while at the same time being able to support their caring responsibilities.  It is for the NHS Employers to make this a reality and stop the movement of highly trained professionals from leaving the NHS and moving either to the private sector or alternative employment where flexible working is promoted and supported. 

  

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